Short trip to the Rocky Mountains

Wow. Where should I start xD
Well, We`re in Lake Louise at the Moment, not in Golden like how we planed!
But lets talk from the beginning.
After our week in Vancouver we took the bus on the 29th to Golden! 13 hours! Im still afraid to drive on the highway jn the bus. even its the trans canada highway, it only has two lines and no streetlights....in the mountains. we saw 3 trucks laying in the ditch, which was pretty scary.

When we finally arrived Jan, another german wwoofer and Zack, the nephew of Raph the Manager of the Beaverfoot Lodge, our last Wwoofing stay, picked us up and we drove 45  mins through the darkness! We were pretty excited, cause they told us there are more wwoofers ( all Germans :D) and we thought yeah! People in our age^^ So we met Nicola, Lukas and Tim. When we arrived we expected to get a Little introduction into the lodgelife and the workingdays but pppff....Raph came like 30 min after we arrived and showed us our room and went away. We only knew that we should work 5 days a week and 5 hours a day starting at 11! Cool Cool we thought :D and for extrahours we would get 10 Dollars. But we got our own room and the most comfy beds ever!!
The first Thing we did in the morning was to learn how to make bread. And it looked like we`re doing all the cooking and housekeeping. They had no guests at the Moment so the wwoofers had the lodge all for themselves! the Lodge consists of the main lodge, 4 Cabins, campground and the house , where Raph and his Family live. The lodge is operated on a septic system and provides its own power. The poperty is nestled in a beautiful valley in the Rocky Mountains!! The View was awesome!!!!

The View

The Lodge

 Raph and his wife Catherine have two children, Alisha and Alec, who we saw maybe 3 times in the whole 1 1/2 week we stayed there! Raph is a filmmaker aswell. He shot a few scence for his new movie( a reality film about the lodge) and valerie and me had to play two unsadisfied guests. In the scence, raph threw us out of the lodge! His plan was to show him as the evil manager to entertain thpeople so that they eventually get more guests cause I think the lodge wasn't running that well!

Also on the property living was Dan, a worker and where should I start :D Dan is a personality for himself xD He obviously had an alcohol Problem but he was always in a good mood and tried to Keep the harmony in the lodge when it got stressful and negative. He introduced himself and told us he lives with is 7 children in a small Cabin on the beaverfootproperty. We thought : " shiit 7 children!!" But then he pulled is Cell phone out and showed us Pictures of his Dogs and cats, who we should meet later that day :D In his Cabin he had no running water, some Windows had no glas and only a oven to heat the whole cabin. But he had the biggest Weed bag I ever saw in my life!!! Like holy cow was the bag big :D. Lukas told us he deals and Raph is his best costumer xD 

Like seriously, I have the Feeling canada has the highest weed consumption in the whole world ^^ everywhere from the city to the forest you can smell it :D 

After a few days we recognized that there was no plan or structure in the working days. We usually got up, ate, made bread, did dishes and cleaning , than pause and than cooked for the evening. After a few days it got really cold. -20 and colder in the night. The lodge and all the cabins were heated by fire ovens. Usually Tim did the fires but the boys had a lot other maintain work to do so Ralph told us to make fire in every cabin. So we did, without any tips or instructions how to do it. After the first cabin Tim got to us and said Raph is totally pissed off cause we made too small fires. When we met Raph we got to know his other side. He yelled at us and threaten us that he kiks us out when we not help him with the work. That was only the beginning of our relationship with Raph! In the next couple of days this happened every day! A day before we left he actually called Valerie disabled! Raph is like a volcano. You never know when he explode.

We spend the most days chopping wood, running from one cabin to the next and cooking. The evenings we usually spend together with the other woofers and Dan and watched movies. Dan was totally in Christmas spirit! Everything was Christmassy and he wanted everybody to be happy and full of love :) and I think the thing he loves the most ,besides his kids, are Christmas movies !! Every night we had to watch one. Than he had his 3 glases of wodka and Khalua and fell asleep in the middle of the movie^^  or he told us stories out if his life! He has 4 actual kids from 2 different women, was 6 years in jail, a drug dealer and a stripper! It never got boring when he was around. Or he told us stories about wwoofers and Raph. that much woofers left cause they think Raph is a psychopath and he actually kikes some wwoofers out. Including zacks girlfriend. Whereupon Zack and her stole Raphs car and drove all the way to Manitoba. Over 30 hours and zack is 17 and has no driving license. But they couldn't call the police cause Zack had a gun in the car!! 

Yep crazy place with crazy people! Even bowser the cat was crazy!! 

After a few days jan left and valentine and her boyfriend Benoit choined the team. 

Also the ovens didn't heat properly! We were freezing the whole time. No room was warm enough and we sat with our skijackets inside. In the morning I even could see my breath inside! And it didn't get better. After a few days the pipes were frozen and the toilets downstairs weren't working anymore. The shower had no power anymore, the Internet wasn't working and we had some powerproblems so that every night the lights were flickering! Even the location was so super beautiful, the desisson to leave was really easy. So we drove Into golden to get wifi and booked the next bus to lake Louise :D  

best place :)

Valentine, Valerie, Nicola and me

Presents exchange^^

Dan while sleeping :D

Aphapha :D

 

We booked two nights in a hostel to go skiing and to have a working shower and a warm bed. Canadians don't know what a real sky pass is^^ you only get a paper sticker to put on your jacket and on every lift is a man standing with a scanner! No Card-Reader-maschines xD  jan , the one guy from the lodge, staid here too with his friend timo. We went skiing together and today we hiked to the lake Louise and enjoyed a coffee in the expensive chateau lake Louise. Now I hang around on my phone waiting to catch the bus. Cause we're driving back to Vancouver :D

Lake Louise